> Hey, I was thinking about something as I was rewriting part of
> my configuration, and I thought it would be neat if there were
> an option in fvwm2 where you can have fvwm2 automatically reload
> when you change the .fvwm2rc. If no option like that exists,
> what do you think about it?
There a couple of practical concerns.
* In order to do this, fvwm2 would have to periodically "stat" the
.fvwm2rc file and check for the date and/or size having changed. If
the stat were done only occasionally, there would be a delay between
updating the file and the auto-restart. If done frequently, it
would become a significant overhead in its own right.
* How would you avoid a race condition, wherein fvwm2 sees the changed
file and decides to restart halfway through a rewrite? Most text
editors don't lock files while writing them.
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Received on Tue Apr 02 2002 - 17:43:20 BST